Challenge of the Sublime
From Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art
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Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781526117397
- ISBN-101526117398
- OCLC Control Number990854067
- Better World Books9781526117397
- Open LibraryOL33313451M
Classifications
- LCCNX650.S92
- LCCNX650.S92 P43 2018
Description
This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's 'Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful' (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather than the finished artwork.
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